Ranunculus flabellaris |
Ranunculus triternatus |
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greater yellow water crowfoot, renoncule à évantails, water buttercup, yellow water-buttercup, yellow water-crowfoot |
Dalles Mountain buttercup, obscure buttercup |
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Roots | cylindric, 2-3 mm thick. |
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Stems | floating or prostrate, glabrous, rooting at proximal nodes. |
prostrate or ascending, 5-20 cm, glabrous, each with 1-6 flowers. |
Leaves | basal leaves seldom present, cauline leaf blades semicircular to reniform, 1-6x-lobed, parted, or dissected 1.2-7.3 × 1.9-10.8 cm, base truncate or cordate, segment margins entire or crenate, apex rounded to filiform. |
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Basal leaves | persistent, blades rhombic to deltate or reniform in outline, 3-4x-dissected, 1.1-3.4 × 2-3.1 cm, segments linear, base obtuse, margins crenate, apices of segments narrowly rounded. |
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Flowers | receptacle sparsely hispid; sepals 5, spreading or weakly reflexed, 5-7 × 3-6 mm, glabrous; petals 5-6(-14), 7-12 × 5-9 mm; nectary scale variable, crescent-shaped, funnel-shaped, or flaplike; style 0.8-1.2 mm. |
pedicels glabrous; receptacle short-pubescent; sepals 4-8 × 2-5 mm, abaxially glabrous or nearly so; petals 5, 6-15 × 4-10 mm; nectary scale glabrous. |
Heads of achenes | ovoid, 8-10 × 7-8 mm; achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.6-2.2 mm, glabrous; beak lanceolate, straight, 1-1.8 mm. |
depressed-globose, 4-6 × 5-8 mm; achenes 1.8-2.2 × 1.2-1.8 mm, finely pubescent; beak subulate, straight, 0.8-1.5 mm. |
2n | = 32. |
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Ranunculus flabellaris |
Ranunculus triternatus |
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Phenology | Flowering late spring–summer (May–Aug). | Flowering spring (Apr–May). |
Habitat | Shallow water or drying mud | Grassland or sagebrush |
Elevation | 0-1500 m (0-4900 ft) | 900-1700 m (3000-5600 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; AR; CA; CT; DE; IA; ID; IL; IN; KS; KY; LA; MA; MD; ME; MI; MN; MO; MS; NC; ND; NE; NH; NJ; NV; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA; RI; SD; TN; TX; UT; VA; VT; WA; WI; WY; AB; BC; MB; NB; ON; QC
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ID; NV; OR; WA
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Discussion | The Fox tribes used Ranunculus flabellaris as a cold remedy and a respiratory aid (D. E. Moerman 1986). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Of conservation concern. C. L. Hitchcock et al. (1955-1969, vol. 2) considered the name Ranunculus triternatus A. Gray to be an illegitemate homonym and used the illegitimate (superfluous) name R. reconditus A. Nelson & J. F. Macbride for this species. The name Ranunculus triternatus Poiret was not validly published (not accepted by Poiret) and does not invalidate R. triternatus A. Gray. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
Source | FNA vol. 3. | FNA vol. 3. |
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Synonyms | R. delphinifolius | R. glaberrimus var. reconditus |
Name authority | Rafinesque: Amer. Monthly Mag. & Crit. Rev. 2: 344. (1818) | A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 21: 370. (1886) |
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